Cary Grant - Filmbug Cary Grant Cary Grant Cary Grant (January 18, 1904 - November 29, 1986) was an English-born American actor. Born Archibald Leach in Bristol, he was perhaps the foremost exemplar of the debonair actor, not only handsome but witty and charming. He had a confusing and unhappy childhood. He attended Fairfield School in Bristol, but was expelled in 1918 after an incident involving the girls' toilets, and joined a stage troupe. The stage troupe brought Grant to the United States in 1920 and to Hollywood in 1931, which is when he started using the name "Cary Grant". He became an American citizen on June 26th, 1942. Grant starred in some classic screwball comedies, including Bringing Up Baby, with Katherine Hepburn and His Girl Friday. He also made The Philadelphia Story with Hepburn and Jimmy Stewart. His Girl Friday and The Philadelphia Story have many elements in common. In both films, Grant plays a charming man who has married an intelligent and charming woman and then been divorced by her.

Grant's character believes all along that he and his ex-wife belong together again, and after various clever stratagems, he manages to convince not only his ex-wife but the audience as well that he is right. Alfred Hitchcock , who was notorious for disliking actors, was very fond of Cary Grant, and used him in four classic Hitchcock films: North By Northwest, Notorious, Suspicion, and To Catch a Thief, with Grace Kelly . He was one of Hollywood's top box-office attractions for several decades. Although twice nominated for an Academy Award, he never won but was honored in 1970 with a special Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement. In 1981, he received the Kennedy Center Honors. His fourth marriage was to actress Dyan Cannon , with whom he had his only child, a daughter. In the last few years of his life, Grant undertook tours of the USA with his "An Evening with Cary Grant", in which he would show clips from his films and afterward hold a question-and-answer session with the audience. It was just before one of these performances - in Davenport, Iowa - that Grant suffered a severe stroke and died in hospital a few hours later.

His cremated ashes were given to his family for disposal. Note: This profile was written in or before 2003. Cary Grant Facts Cary Grant (Leach) (1904 - 1986) - Genealogy Cary Grant Share your family tree and photos with the people you know and love Build your family tree online Share photos and videos Jan 18 1904 - Horfield, Bristol Death: Nov 29 1986 - Davenport, Iowa Parents: Elias James Leach, Elsie Maria Leach (born Kingdon) Brother: Samille (Dyan Cannon) Grant (Leach) (geb. Friesen) Daughter: Apr 2 1911 - 5. Seymour Avenue Bishopston Bristolseymour Avenue, Bishopston, Gloucestershire, England Parents: Jan 18 1904 - 15 Hughenden Road, Horfield, Bristol, England Death: Nov 29 1986 - Davenport, Iowa, U.S.

Parents: Elias James Leach, Elsie Maria Leach Wife: Jan 18 1904 - Bristol, Inglaterra Death: Nov 29 1986 - Davenport, Iowa, EUA Wife: Jan 18 1904 - Bristol, Gloucestershire, England Death: Nov 29 1986 - Davenport, Iowa, U.S.A. Parents: Elias James Leach, Elsie Leach (o.s. Kingdom) Ex-partner: Jan 18 1904 - Bristol, Gloucestershire, UK Death: Nov 29 1986 - Davenport, Iowa, USA Parents: Elias Leach, Elsie Maria Leach Sibling: Barbara Von Cramm / Leach / Von Haugwitz-hardenberg-reventlow / Mdivani (geb. Woolworth Hutton) Wife: Virginia (Virginia Child-villiers Countess Of Jersey) Grant (Leach) (geb. Cherrill) Wife: Betsy (Betsy Drake Grant Ed.m.) Grant (Leach) (geb.

Drake) Wife: Samille (Dyan Cannon) Grant (Leach) (geb. Friesen) Partner: <Private> Grant (Leach) (geb. Donaldson) Daughter: About Cary Grant CARY GRANT Archibald Alexander Leach, better known by his stage name Cary Grant, was an English–American actor. With his distinctive yet not quite placeable Mid-Atlantic accent, he was noted as perhaps the foremost exemplar of the debonair leading man: handsome, virile, charismatic, and charming. He was named the second Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute.

His popular classic films include The Awful Truth (1937), Bringing Up Baby (1938), Gunga Din (1939), Only Angels Have Wings (1939), His Girl Friday (1940), The Philadelphia Story (1940), Suspicion (1941), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), Notorious (1946), To Catch A Thief (1955), An Affair to Remember (1957), North by Northwest (1959), and Charade (1963). At the 42nd Academy Awards the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honored him with an Honorary Award "for his unique mastery of the art of screen acting with the respect and affection of his colleagues". Early life and career: Archibald Alexander Leach was born in Horfield, Bristol, to Elsie Maria Kingdon (1877–1973) and Elias James Leach (1873–1935).An only child, he had an unhappy childhood, attending Bishop Road Primary School. His mother had suffered from depression since the death of a previous child.

His father placed her in a mental institution, and told his nine-year-old son only that she had gone away on a "long holiday"; it was not until he was in his thirties that Grant discovered her alive, in an institutionalized care facility. He was expelled from the Fairfield Grammar School in Bristol in 1918. He subsequently joined the "Bob Pender stage troupe" and travelled with the group to the United States as a stilt walker in 1920 at the age of 16, on a two-year tour of the country. He was processed at Ellis Island on July 28, 1920. When the troupe returned to the UK, he decided to stay in the U.S. and continue his stage career. Still using his birth name, he performed on the stage at The Muny in St. Louis, Missouri, in such shows as Irene (1931); Music in May (1931); Nina Rosa (1931); Rio Rita (1931); Street Singer (1931); The Three Musketeers (1931); and Wonderful Night (1931).

Hollywood stardom: After some success in light Broadway comedies, he went to Hollywood in 1931, where he acquired the name Cary Lockwood. He chose the name Lockwood after the surname of his character in a recent play called Nikki. He signed with Paramount Pictures, but while studio bosses were impressed with him, they were less than impressed with his adopted stage name. They decided that the name Cary was acceptable, but Lockwood had to go due to a similarity with another actor's name. It was after browsing through a list of the studio's preferred surnames, that Cary Grant was born. Grant chose the name because the initials C and G had already proved lucky for Clark Gable and Gary Cooper, two of Hollywood's biggest movie stars. Already having appeared as leading man opposite Marlene Dietrich in Blonde Venus (1932), his stardom was given a further boost by Mae West when she chose him for her leading man in two of her most successful films, She Done Him Wrong and I'm No Angel (both 1933). I'm No Angel was a tremendous financial success and, along with She Done Him Wrong, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture, saved Paramount from bankruptcy.

Paramount put Grant in a series of unsuccessful films until 1936, when he signed with Columbia Pictures. His first major comedy hit was when he was loaned to Hal Roach's studio for the 1937 Topper (which was distributed by MGM). Grant starred in some of the classic screwball comedies, including Bringing Up Baby (1938) with Katharine Hepburn, His Girl Friday (1940) with Rosalind Russell, Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) featuring Priscilla Lane, and Monkey Business (1952) opposite Ginger Rogers and Marilyn Monroe. Under the tutelage of director Leo McCarey, his role in The Awful Truth (1937) with Irene Dunne was the pivotal film in the establishment of Grant's screen persona. These performances solidified his appeal, but it was The Philadelphia Story (1940), with Hepburn and James Stewart, that made him a star. Grant was one of Hollywood's top box-office attractions for several decades. He was a versatile actor, who did demanding physical comedy in movies such as Gunga Din (1939) with the skills he had learned on the stage.

Howard Hawks said that Grant was "so far the best that there isn't anybody to be compared to him". Grant was a favorite actor of Alfred Hitchcock, notorious for disliking actors, who said that Grant was "the only actor I ever loved in my whole life". Grant appeared in the Hitchcock classics Suspicion (1941), Notorious (1946), To Catch a Thief (1955) and North by Northwest (1959). Biographer Patrick McGilligan wrote that, in 1965, Hitchcock asked Grant to star in Torn Curtain (1966), only to learn that Grant had decided to retire after making one more film, Walk, Don't Run (1966); Paul Newman was cast instead in Torn Curtain, opposite Julie Andrews. In the mid-1950s, Grant formed his own production company, Grantley Productions, and produced a number of movies distributed by Universal, such as Operation Petticoat (1959), Indiscreet (1958), That Touch of Mink (co-starring with Doris Day, 1962), and Father Goose (1964).

In 1963, he appeared opposite Audrey Hepburn in Charade (1963). His last feature fim was Walk, Don't Run (1966) with Samantha Eggar. Grant was the first actor to "go independent", effectively bucking the old studio system, which almost completely controlled what an actor could or could not do. In this way, Grant was able to control every aspect of his career. He decided which movies he was going to appear in, he often had personal choice of the directors and his co-stars and at times, even negotiated a share of the gross, something uncommon at the time. Grant was nominated for two Academy Awards in the 1940s. Grant received a special Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1970. In 1981, he was accorded the Kennedy Center Honors. In 1962, a few years before retiring, Time reported that he had once received a telegram from a magazine editor asking him "HOW OLD CARY GRANT?" Grant was reported to have responded with "OLD CARY GRANT FINE.

HOW YOU?" Never self absorbed, he even poked fun at himself with statements such as, "Everyone wants to be Cary Grant—even I want to be Cary Grant". Retirement and death: Although Grant had retired from the screen, he remained active in other areas. In the late 1960s, he accepted a position on the board of directors at Fabergé. By all accounts this position was not honorary, as some had assumed, Grant regularly attended meetings and his mere appearance at a product launch would almost certainly guarantee its success. The position also permitted use of a private plane, which Grant could use to fly to see his daughter wherever her mother, Dyan Cannon, was working. He later joined the boards of Hollywood Park, Western Airlines (now Delta Air Lines), and MGM. In the last few years of his life, Grant undertook tours of the United States in a one-man show. It was called "A Conversation with Cary Grant", in which he would show clips from his films and answer audience questions. Grant was preparing for a performance at the Adler Theater in Davenport, Iowa on the afternoon of 29 November 1986 when he suffered a massive cerebral hemorrhage.

(He also had suffered a minor stroke in October 1984.) He died at 11:22 pm in St. Luke's Hospital. Personal life: Grant was married five times, and was dogged by rumors that he was bisexual. He wed Virginia Cherrill on February 10, 1934. She divorced him on March 26, 1935, following charges that Grant had hit her. He married Barbara Hutton and became a father figure to her son, Lance Reventlow. The couple was derisively nicknamed "Cash and Cary", although in an extensive prenuptial agreement Grant refused any financial settlement in the event of a divorce. After divorcing in 1945, they remained lifelong friends. Grant always bristled at the accusation that he married for money: "I may not have married for very sound reasons, but money was never one of them." On December 25, 1949, Grant married Betsy Drake. He appeared with her in two films. This would prove to be his longest marriage, ending on August 14, 1962.

Drake introduced Grant to LSD, and in the early 1960s he related how treatment with the hallucinogenic drug—legal at the time—at a prestigious California clinic had finally brought him inner peace after yoga, hypnotism, and mysticism had proved ineffective. He eloped with Dyan Cannon on July 22, 1965 in Las Vegas. Their daughter, Jennifer Grant, was born prematurely on February 26, 1966. He frequently called her his "best production", and regretted that he had not had children sooner. The marriage was troubled from the beginning and Cannon left him in December 1966, claiming that Grant flew into frequent rages and spanked her when she "disobeyed" him. The divorce, finalized in 1968, was bitter and public, and custody fights over their daughter went on for nearly ten years. On April 11, 1981, Grant married long-time companion, British hotel public relations agent Barbara Harris, who was 47 years his junior. They renewed their vows on their fifth wedding anniversary.

Fifteen years after Grant's death, Harris married former All-American quarterback David Jaynes in 2001. Grant allegedly was involved with costume designer Orry-Kelly when he first moved to Manhattan, and lived with Randolph Scott off and on for twelve years. Richard Blackwell wrote that Grant and Scott were "deeply, madly in love", and alleged eyewitness accounts of their physical affection have been published.Hedda Hopper and screenwriter Arthur Laurents also have alleged that Grant was bisexual, the latter writing that Grant "told me he threw pebbles at my window one night but was luckless". Alexander D'Arcy, who appeared with Grant in The Awful Truth, said he knew that he and Scott "lived together as a gay couple", adding: "I think Cary knew that people were saying things about him. I don't think he tried to hide it." The two men frequently accompanied each other to parties and premieres and were unconcerned when photographs of them cozily preparing dinner together at home were published in fan magazines. Barbara, Grant's widow, has disputed that there was a relationship with Scott.

When Chevy Chase joked about Grant being gay in a television interview, he sued him for slander; they settled out of court. However, Grant did admit in an interview that his first two wives had accused him of being homosexual. Betsy Drake commented: "Why would I believe that Cary was homosexual when we were busy fucking? Maybe he was bisexual. He lived 43 years before he met me.

I don't know what he did." Find a Grave: Cary Grant From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Cary Grant as John Robie in Alfred Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief (1955) Born Archibald Alec Leach January 18, 1904 Bristol, England, United Kingdom Died November 29, 1986 (aged 82) Davenport, Iowa, United States Other name(s) Archie Leach Occupation Actor Years active 1932–1966 Spouse(s) Virginia Cherrill (1934–1935) Barbara Hutton (1942–1945) Betsy Drake (1949–1962) Dyan Cannon (1965–1967) Barbara Harris (1981–1986) Domestic partner(s) Maureen Donaldson (1973–1977) Archibald Alexander Leach[2] (January 18, 1904 – November 29, 1986), better known by his stage name Cary Grant, was a British-American actor.

With his distinctive yet not quite placeable Mid-Atlantic accent, he was noted as perhaps the foremost exemplar of the debonair leading man: handsome, virile, charismatic and charming. Grant was a Republican, but did not think movie stars should publicly make political declarations. Grant described his politics and his reticence about them this way: "I'm opposed to actors taking sides in public and spouting spontaneously about love, religion, or politics. We aren't experts on these subjects. Personally I'm a mass of inconsistencies when it comes to politics. My opinions are constantly changing. That's why I don't ever take a public stand on issues." He was named the second Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute.

His popular classic films include The Awful Truth (1937), Bringing Up Baby (1938), Gunga Din (1939), Only Angels Have Wings (1939), His Girl Friday (1940), The Philadelphia Story (1940), Suspicion (1941), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), Notorious (1946), To Catch A Thief (1955), An Affair to Remember (1957), North by Northwest (1959), and Charade (1963). At the 42nd Academy Awards the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honored him with an Honorary Award "for his unique mastery of the art of screen acting with the respect and affection of his colleagues". Archibald Alexander Leach was born in Horfield, Bristol, England in 1904 to Elsie Maria Kingdon (1877–1973) and Elias James Leach (1873–1935).[3][4] An only child, he had a confused and unhappy childhood, attending Bishop Road Primary School.

His father placed his mother in a mental institution when he was nine and his mother never overcame her depression after the death of a previous child. His father had told him that she had gone away on a "long holiday" and it was not until he was in his thirties that Leach discovered her alive, in an institutionalized care facility. He was expelled from the Fairfield Grammar School in Bristol in 1918. He subsequently joined the "Bob Pender stage troupe" and travelled with the group to the United States as a stilt walker in 1920 at the age of 16, on a two-year tour of the country. He was processed at Ellis Island on July 28, 1920.[5] When the troupe returned to the UK, he decided to stay in the US and continue his stage career. Still under his birth name, he performed on the stage at The Muny in St.

Louis, Missouri, in such shows as Irene (1931); Music in May (1931); Nina Rosa (1931); Rio Rita (1931); Street Singer (1931); The Three Musketeers (1931); and Wonderful Night (1931). Hollywood stardom After some success in light Broadway comedies, he went to Hollywood in 1931, where he acquired the name Cary Lockwood. He chose the name Lockwood after the surname of his character in a recent play called Nikki. He signed with Paramount Pictures, but while studio bosses were impressed with him, they were less than impressed with his adopted stage name. They decided that the name Cary was OK, but Lockwood had to go due to a similarity with another actor's name. It was after browsing through a list of the studio's preferred surnames, that Cary Grant was born. Grant chose the name because the initials C and G had already proved lucky for Clark Gable and Gary Cooper, two of Hollywood's biggest movie stars.

Having already appeared as leading man opposite Marlene Dietrich in Blonde Venus (1932), his stardom was given a further boost by Mae West when she chose him for her leading man in two of her most successful films, She Done Him Wrong and I'm No Angel (both 1933). I'm No Angel was a tremendous financial success and, along with She Done Him Wrong, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture, saved Paramount from bankruptcy. Paramount put Grant in a series of indifferent films until 1936, when he signed with Columbia Pictures. His first major comedy hit was when he was loaned to Hal Roach's studio for the 1937 Topper (which was distributed by MGM). in The Philadelphia Story (1940) Grant starred in some of the classic screwball comedies, including Bringing Up Baby (1938) with Katharine Hepburn, His Girl Friday (1940) with Rosalind Russell, Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) featuring Priscilla Lane, and Monkey Business (1952) opposite Ginger Rogers and Marilyn Monroe.

Under the tutelage of director Leo McCarey, his role in The Awful Truth (1937) with Irene Dunne was the pivotal film in the establishment of Grant's screen persona. These performances solidified his appeal, and The Philadelphia Story (1940), with Hepburn and James Stewart, showcased his best-known screen persona: the charming if sometimes unreliable man, formerly married to an intelligent and strong-willed woman who first divorced him, then realized that he was—with all his faults—irresistible. Grant was one of Hollywood's top box-office attractions for several decades. He was a versatile actor, who did demanding physical comedy in movies like Gunga Din (1939) with the skills he had learned on the stage. Howard Hawks said that Grant was "so far the best that there isn't anybody to be compared to him".

Grant was a favorite actor of Alfred Hitchcock, notorious for disliking actors, who said that Grant was "the only actor I ever loved in my whole life".[8] Grant appeared in the Hitchcock classics Suspicion (1941), Notorious (1946), To Catch a Thief (1955) and North by Northwest (1959). Biographer Patrick McGilligan wrote that, in 1965, Hitchcock asked Grant to star in Torn Curtain (1966), only to learn that Grant had decided to retire after making one more film, Walk, Don't Run (1966); Paul Newman was cast instead in Torn Curtain, opposite Julie Andrews. In the mid-1950s, Grant formed his own production company, Grantley Productions, and produced a number of movies distributed by Universal, such as Operation Petticoat (1959), Indiscreet (1958), That Touch of Mink (co-starring with Doris Day, 1962), and Father Goose (1964). In 1963, he appeared opposite Audrey Hepburn in Charade (1963).

His last feature fim was Walk, Don't Run (1966) with Samantha Eggar. Grant was once considered a maverick as he was the first actor to "go independent", effectively bucking the old studio system, which almost completely controlled what an actor could or could not do. In this way, Grant was able to control every aspect of his career. He decided which movies he was going to appear in, he often had personal choice of the directors and his co-stars and at times, even negotiated a share of the gross, something uncommon at the time, but now common in the industry among A-list stars. Grant was nominated for two Academy Awards in the 1940s. He was denied the Oscar throughout his active career because he was one of the first actors to be independent of the major studios. Grant received a special Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1970. In 1981, he was accorded the Kennedy Center Honors. In 1962, a few years before retiring, TIME Magazine reported that he had once received a telegram from a magazine editor asking him "HOW OLD CARY GRANT?" Grant was reported to have responded with "OLD CARY GRANT FINE.

HOW YOU?" Retirement and death Although Grant had retired from the screen, he remained active in other areas. In the late 1960s, he accepted a position on the board of directors at Fabergé. By all accounts this position was not honorary as some had assumed, as Grant was regularly attending meetings and his mere appearance at a product launch would almost certainly guarantee its success. The position also permitted use of a private plane, which Grant could use to fly to see his daughter wherever her mother, Dyan Cannon, was working. He later joined the boards of Hollywood Park, Western Airlines (now Delta Air Lines), and MGM. In the last few years of his life, Grant undertook tours of the United States in a one man show. It was called "A Conversation with Cary Grant", in which he would show clips from his films and answer audience questions. Grant was preparing for a performance at the Adler Theater in Davenport, Iowa on the afternoon of 29 November 1986 when he suffered a massive cerebral hemorrhage.

(He had also suffered a minor stroke in October 1984.) He died at 11:22 pm Personal life Grant was married five times, and was dogged by rumors that he was bisexual. He wed Virginia Cherrill on February 10, 1934. She divorced him on March 26, 1935, following charges that Grant had hit her. He married Barbara Hutton and became a father figure to her son, Lance Reventlow. The couple were derisively nicknamed "Cash and Cary", although in an extensive prenuptial agreement Grant refused any financial settlement in the event of a divorce. After divorcing in 1945, they remained lifelong friends. Grant always bristled at the accusation that he married for money: "I may not have married for very sound reasons, but money was never one of them." Grant married Betsy Drake on December 25, 1949. He appeared with her in two films. This would prove to be his longest marriage, ending on August 14, 1962.

Drake introduced Grant to LSD, and in the early 60s he related how treatment with the hallucinogenic drug—legal at the time—at a prestigious California clinic had finally brought him inner peace after yoga, hypnotism, and mysticism had proved ineffective.[12][13][14] He eloped with Dyan Cannon on July 22, 1965 in Las Vegas. Their daughter, Jennifer Grant, was born prematurely on February 26, 1966. He frequently called her his "best production", and regretted that he had not had children sooner. The marriage was troubled from the beginning and Cannon left him in December 1966, claiming that Grant flew into frequent rages and spanked her when she "disobeyed" him. The divorce, finalized in 1968, was bitter and public, and custody fights over their daughter went on for nearly 10 years. On April 11, 1981, Grant married long-time companion, British hotel PR agent Barbara Harris, who was 47 years his junior. They renewed their vows on their fifth wedding anniversary.

Fifteen years after Grant's death, Harris married former All-American quarterback David Jaynes in 2001. When Chevy Chase joked about Grant being gay in a television interview, he sued him for slander; they settled out of court. However, he did admit in an interview that his first two wives had accused him of being homosexual. Betsy Drake commented: "Why would I believe that Cary was homosexual when we were busy fucking? Maybe he was bisexual. He lived 43 years before he met me. I don't know what he did". Politics Grant was a Republican, but did not think movie stars should publicly make political declarations. Grant described his politics and his reticence about them this way: "I'm opposed to actors taking sides in public and spouting spontaneously about love, religion, or politics. We aren't experts on these subjects. Personally I'm a mass of inconsistencies when it comes to politics. My opinions are constantly changing. That's why I don't ever take a public stand on issues." Throughout his life, Grant maintained personal friendships with colleagues of varying political stripes and his few political activities seemed to be shaped by personal friendships.

Repulsed by the human costs to many in Hollywood, Grant publicly condemned McCarthyism in 1953 and vocally defended his friend Charlie Chaplin when the later was blacklisted, insisting that Chaplin's artistic value outweighed political concerns. Grant was also a friend of the Kennedy brothers and made one of his rare statements on public issues following the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, calling for gun control. In 1976, after his retirement from movies, Grant made his one overtly partisan appearance, introducing his friend Betty Ford, the First Lady, at the Republican National Convention, but even in this he maintained some distance from partisanship, speaking of "your" party, rather than "ours" in his remarks. In 1958 Grant himself was criticized by right-wing columnist Hedda Hopper for vacationing in the Soviet Union after filming Indiscreet (1958). He appeared to inflame the controversy by remarking to an interviewer "I don't care what kind of government they have over there, I never had such a good time in my life". Tribute Statue of Cary Grant in Millennium Square, Bristol, England.

In 2001 a statue of Grant was erected in Millennium Square, a regenerated area next to the harbour in his city of birth, Bristol, England. In November 2004, Grant was named "The Greatest Movie Star of All Time" by Premiere Magazine. Richard Schickel, the film critic, said about Grant: "He's the best star actor there ever was in the movies." Ian Fleming stated that he partially had Cary Grant in mind when he created his suave super-spy, James Bond. Sean Connery was selected for the first James Bond movie because of his likeness to Grant. Likewise, the later Bond, Roger Moore, was also selected for sharing Grant's wry sense of humor. John Cleese's character in the film A Fish Called Wanda was named Archie Leach, a reference to Grant's legal birth name. (Grant himself had referenced an off-screen character named "Archie Leach" in His Girl Friday). The 1960s TV series The Flintstones featured a stone-age entertainer named "Cary Granite".

Cary Grant did not say "Judy, Judy, Judy..." as a scripted line; it was spoken by Tony Curtis doing a Grant impression for the character of the millionaire in the movie Some Like it Hot, but Curtis heard it first when he went to visit Larry Storch's stand-up routine in New York and heard Storch say "Judy, Judy, Judy..." when Judy Garland walked into the club. Cary Grant did later say it to camera. In his "Schticks of One and a Half Dozen of the Other" medley, Allan Sherman created this lyric, sung to the tune of "Marianne", comically expressing jealousy: "All day, all night, 'Cary Grant!' / That's all I hear from my wife, is 'Cary Grant!' / What can he do that I can't? / Big deal! Big star! Cary Grant!" Walter G. Ashworth always a big fan. It would impossible for to list my favorite Gary Grant movie. I enjoy watching every one he made. In November 2004, Grant was named "The Greatest Movie Star of All Time" Still is in my book.

Archibald Alexander (Leach) Grant (1904-1986) | WikiTree: The FREE Family Tree Cary (Leach) Grant was a American Spy in World War II. Biography Cary Grant was born as Archibald Alexander Leach in 1904 in Horfield, Bristol, England to Elsie Maria Kingdon & Elias James Leach. His mother suffered from depression & his father was a philanderer, finally abandoning the family for another woman. His mother was committed to a psychiatric hospital when Archie was ten. Left with no parents he ran away at age 13. He joined the "Bob Pender Stage Troupe" in 1920 & toured the US. He found the country to his liking & became a citizen in 1942, legally changing his name to Cary Grant. He became a popular & gifted actor portraying dashing leading men on the silver screen & was proclaimed the second Greatest Male Star of All Time (after Humphrey Bogart) by the American Film Institute. Cary Grant wasn't just a spy in Hitchcock's "Notorious," he was one of the greatest Nazi hunters of Hollywood during World War II.

Not only did he infamously out legend Errol Flynn as a Nazi sympathizer, and investigate the former German husband of actress Barbara Hutton (whom Grant later married), he donated his movie salaries throughout the war period to the British War Relief and the Red Cross. [1] Sources Private Messages: Send a private message to the Profile Manager . (Best when privacy is an issue.) Public Comments: Login to post. (Best for messages specifically directed to those editing this profile. Limit 20 per day.) Public Q&A: These will appear above and in the Genealogist-to-Genealogist (G2G) Forum . (Best for anything directed to the wider genealogy community.) There are no public comments yet. Cary is 19 degrees from Kevin Bacon, 50 degrees from Domingo Ghirardelli, 29 degrees from Ronel Olivier, 34 degrees from Rosa Parks and 13 degrees from Queen Elizabeth II of the Commonwealth Realms on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.

Cary Grant Biography - life, family, parents, name, wife, school, mother, young, information, born Cary Grant Biography Davenport, Iowa English-born American actor Hollywood legend Cary Grant won audiences the world over with his charm and sophistication as an actor. Grant created a light, comic style that many have tried to imitate but none have surpassed. In seventy-two films made over four decades, Grant served as both a romantic ideal for women and a dashing role model for men. Early life as Archie Leach Cary Grant was born Archibald Alexander Leach on January 18, 1904, in Bristol, England. His parents, Elias and Elsie Leach, were poor, and they quarreled often as they struggled to raise their only child. Grant found escape from the family tension in the newly emerging "picture palaces." He recalled in a Ladies Home Journal (1963) interview that "those Saturday matinees free from parental supervision were the high point of my week." At the age of ten Grant was told that his mother had left for a seaside resort. In reality she had been sent to a nearby mental institution for a nervous breakdown. She remained there for twenty years.

Grant was an adult before he learned of his mother's true whereabouts. "There was a void in my life," Grant said of the lost time with mother, "a sadness of spirit that affected each daily activity with which I occupied myself in order to overcome it." Decision to act AP/Wide World Photos . in Somerset, England. While at the school he became interested in the theater and in theatrical lighting. It was at the Bristol (England) Hippodrome vaudeville (traveling variety entertainment) theater that Grant realized just how he would escape his worry-filled working-class environment. After being allowed backstage during a Saturday matinee, Grant decided to become an actor. "I suddenly found my inarticulate self in a land of smiling, jostling people wearing all sorts of costumes and doing all sorts of clever things," Grant remembered. "And that's when I knew! What other life could there be but that of an actor?" Grant ran away from home and joined the Bob Pender Troupe of comedians and acrobats. He was soon forced to return home, when it was discovered that he had lied about his age and about having his father's permission to work. At thirteen Grant was a year too young to obtain a work permit to work legally.

Undeterred, he waited until he turned fourteen and then got expelled from school so that his father might let him rejoin the group. Grant learned comedy, gymnastics, and pantomime from Pender's group. His later skill at physical comedy and timing owed much to this early training. His travels with the troupe led him to New York, where he decided to stay and seek success. Using his vaudeville skills he worked Coney Island as a stilt-walker and eventually won roles in light musicals and plays. In 1932 Grant took the advice of a friend and went to Hollywood for a screen test. Paramount offered him a contract but insisted he change his name from Archie Leach. So the more glamorous Cary Grant was chosen—and a great film career began. Trademark sophistication Even in his earliest film roles, Grant demonstrated the elegant sophistication that is the very opposite of his working-class background. His credentials as a traditional leading man were established with his appearance opposite Marlene Dietrich in Blond Venus. The perfect format for displaying Grant's verbal and physical agility was in the screwball comedies of the 1930s.

In The Awful Truth, His Girl Friday, Holiday and Bringing Up Baby, Grant's deft comic touch is prevalent. His Oscar-nominated performances in Penny Serenade and None But the Lonely Heart show that Grant was a capable dramatic actor as well. Throughout his career Grant continued to successfully play the charming leading man, even as late as 1964, with the film Charade. Drama with Hitchcock Although Grant's comedies represent the majority of his best-remembered roles, his work with the director Alfred Hitchcock in several classic films offers a departure from his usual image. Hitchcock deliberately played against Grant's familiar persona by introducing psychological twists that are in startling contrast to the actor's smooth surface elegance. Troubled marriages Although Grant achieved tremendous success as an actor, his first four marriages ended in divorce. Grant speculated that this poor record was tied to the disappearance of his mother. His fifth wife, Barbara Harris, was at his side when he died of a massive stroke in 1986. Today Grant's name remains a symbol of the stylish sophistication that was his trademark, and repeated viewings of his films reveal an actor whose ability to delight an audience is timeless.

For More Information BBC News | ENTERTAINMENT | Home-town honour for Cary Grant Monday, 15 January, 2001, 14:29 GMT Home-town honour for Cary Grant Cary Grant with Katharine Hepburn in Bringing up Baby A statue of Hollywood actor Cary Grant is to be put up in the UK to mark the 70th anniversary of his arrival in tinseltown. The statue will be unveiled in Bristol in September by his widow Barbara Grant-Cohen and his daughter Jennifer, as part of the Bristol Cary Grant Festival. Grant, recently voted the second greatest film actor of all time by the American Film Institute, was born Archibald Leach in the Horfield area of Bristol in 1904. He was a regular visitor to Bristol, and visited his mother in an institution and latterly in the home he bought her, right up until his death in 1986. Cary Grant was born Archibald Leach and lived in Bristol The campaign for a statue was started last year by writer David Long.

When Long moved to Bristol he was amazed to find that the city was not doing more to honour the actor, star of North by NorthWest, An Affair to Remember and To Catch a Thief. Grant's family agreed to a campaign for a statue, which has so far raised �35,000. "The campaign started a year or so ago and has been raising money, mainly in America, since then," said Mr Long. He has asked sculptor Graham Ibbeson to create the statue. Mr Ibbeson made the statue of Eric Morecambe now in Morecambe, Lancashire. Mother Mr Long hopes to have the statue erected in the city centre near the Hippodrome Theatre where Grant began his career. He said of Grant's relationship with Bristol: "He came home from school one day and his mother wasn't there, and nobody had said where she had gone. "It was only after his father died 20 years later that he found out she was still alive. "He came back to see her and slowly developed a relationship.

She was too institutionalised to go back to Hollywood, but he bought her a house in Westbury on Trym and came back every year to see her." The festival will include special screenings of Grant's films and an exhibition about his career and early life in the city. Search BBC News Online Message Boards Message Boards The website you are about to visit is ProGenealogists®, operated by TGN Services, LLC, a subsidiary of Ancestry. Message Boards > Topics > Obituaries > Cary Grant, 1904-1986 ( Archibald Alexander Leach) Message Boards Search for content in message boards Names or keywords Obituaries - Family History & Genealogy Message Board Subject Cary Grant, 1904-1986 ( Archibald Alexander Leach) This board is read-only and closed to new posts.

Replies: 0 Posted: 19 Apr 2006 7:09PM GMT Classification: Obituary Surnames: Grant,Leach,Cannon Cary Grant, 1904-1986 Born in Bristol, England, Cary Grant in real life was a little boy who ran away from home, joined the circus, and became a star. Cary Grant died November 29th, 1986 in Davenport, Iowa at the age of 82. When an interviewer once asked the star of "Topper", "I Was A Male War Bride" and numerous radio dramas "Who is Cary Grant?" the actor allegedly replied with his trademark wit "When you find out, let me know." That answer, as did sly on-screen references, masked Cary Grant's life-long uneasiness with his dual identity, the one he was born to and that he created. Cary Grant began life as Archibald Alexander Leach on January 18th, 1904, the second and only surviving child of Elias J. Leach, a presser at a garments works, and his wife, Elsie Kingdom.

The Leaches were a lower-middle-class family eking out a living in the slums of Bristol. Elsie Leach suffered a mental breakdown in 1914, and Grant was told she had gone away on holiday, his father evidently deciding it was better to have the 9-year-old boy believe he had been abandoned than know his mother was committed to an asylum. Grant attended the Bishop Road School for Boys in Bristol. By 1915 the faculty had found a "scholarship" for the boy to attend the Fairfield School in Somerset. Grant attended Fairfield until 1918, when, tall for his age, he forged his estranged father's name on working papers and joined a traveling circus operated by showman Bob Pender. Grant was trained as an acrobat, mastering juggling, tumbling and stilt walking, and was already well traveled by 1920 when Pender included him in the company of an American tour. Grant's first American stage performance was with Pender's "Good Times" revue, which ran in New York City for 456 performances before it was picked up as part of a Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus tour of the US.

By the time the circus tour was over, Grant had decided to stay and test the waters in America, working the Vaudeville circuit and stilt walking at Coney Island. Grant returned to England in 1925, where he spent two years on the British stage circuit, finally receiving an offer to reprise one of his roles for a Broadway production. Grant (as Archie Leach) appeared in various plays and musicals in New York between 1927-30. An uncredited role in Paramount Pictures 1931 release "Singapore Sue" led to a studio contract- and the birth of "Cary Grant": Paramount executives ordered Grant to drop "Archibald Leach" and devised a new name from the initials of their top star- Gary Cooper. Though the actor would spend most of his life as "Cary Grant", he seemed to deliberately insert the ghost of his old life at odd opportunities: in his comedy "Arsenic and Old Lace" with Peter Lorre, a tombstone bears the name Archie Leach, and Grant inserted the name into the dialogue of several films, including "His Girl Friday".

Grant would likely have missed a chance to star in those films- or any others- if not for the intervention of actress-comedienne Mae West. Grant had been buried in back lot films until Ms. West, a star at Paramount, ordered executives to assign Grant to her 1933 film "She Done Him Wrong", an adaptation of her stage show "Diamond Lil". Grant was the man invited by Ms. West to come up and see her some time, and was the man she got for her next film, "I'm No Angel". Both were hits, and though Paramount failed to make better use of the English born actor, they paved the way for better things. Grant's combination of good looks, comic timing and physical grace made him a rare commodity: By 1935, when Grant's Paramount contract expired, he was able to write his own ticket. A sharp businessman, he negotiated a dual contract with RKO and Columbia Pictures that gave him options to accept outside roles- a landmark case of flexibility atypical in the Hollywood studio system.

Able to pick his projects, Grant's first big hit was his 1935 work with Katherine Hepburn in the romantic comedy "Sylvia Scarlett", the first of a string of co-starring roles that included "Bringing Up Baby" (in which Grant vied for Hepburn's affections with a pet leopard) and "The Philadelphia Story" (in which Grant vied for Hepburn's affections with crush-stricken Jimmy Stewart). While his costars earned Oscars for "The Philadelphia Story", Grant gave his share of the film's earnings to the British War Effort during World War II. Those from "Arsenic and Old Lace", finally released in 1944 years after it was filmed, were donated in full to the US War Relief Fund. Grant's talent for comedy earned box office hits in three decades, from his 1940s farces to "Operation Petticoat" and "Monkey Business" in the 1950s.

Debonair and glib, Cary Grant proved a perfect foil for the films of fellow Briton Alfred Hitchcock, who cast him in four of his best films: "Suspicion", "Notorious" (with Oscar winner Ingrid Bergman) "To Catch A Thief" (with the director's favorite actress, Grace Kelly) and "North by Northwest", which broke rules and box office records with racy dialogue and breathless action scenes. Hitchcock so trusted Grant he actually allowed him to improvise dialogue with Grace Kelly during "To Catch A Thief", and had been so pleased with the pairing he had originally planned to reunite them for "North by Northwest", not anticipating Ms. Kelly would retire to become the Princess of Monaco. Grant was offered- and in fact was the model for- the character of James Bond in the Ian Fleming series of films, starting with "Dr. No." Grant, however, said no, and tapered his work off through the 1960s, retiring in 1966 to spend time with his 4th wife, actress Dyan Cannon and their newborn daughter, Jennifer. Grant and Ms.

Cannon divorced in 1968, and the former film star assumed a leadership role within the Faberge Cosmetics empire, making rare public appearances in 1970 to accept a special Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement, and Kennedy Center Honors in 1981. During the 1980s Grant undertook a tour of lectures, his one-man show affording audiences at small colleges and in remote towns an opportunity to discuss with him his life, career and craft, though he refused offers to do the same with talk show hosts or the media. On November 29th, 1986, Cary Grant suffered a severe stroke as he prepared for his program in Davenport Iowa, dying later from cerebral hemorrhage at a local hospital. Survived by his daughter, Jennifer Grant, the actor's ashes were scattered in California. Cary Grant - IMDb IMDb Actor | Soundtrack | Producer Once told by an interviewer, "Everybody would like to be Cary Grant", Grant is said to have replied, "So would I." Cary Grant was born Archibald Alexander Leach in Horfield, Bristol, England, to Elsie Maria (Kingdon) and Elias James Leach, who worked in a factory.

His early years in Bristol would have been an ordinary lower-middle-class childhood, ... See full bio » Born: a list of 30 people created 03 Dec 2010 a list of 30 people created 05 Apr 2011 a list of 47 people created 24 May 2011 a list of 24 people created 19 Oct 2014 a list of 29 images created 24 Jul 2015 Do you have a demo reel? Add it to your IMDbPage How much of Cary Grant's work have you seen? User Polls Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 10 wins & 18 nominations. See more awards » Known For North by Northwest Roger O. Thornhill (1959) 1974 That's Entertainment!

(performer: "Did I Remember" (1936) - uncredited) 1966 Walk Don't Run ("Charade", uncredited) / (performer: "An Affair to Remember (Our Love Affair)" - uncredited) 1959 North by Northwest ("Singin' in the Rain" (1929)) / (performer: "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" (1956) - as "I've Grown Accustomed to Your Bourbon") 1957 An Affair to Remember (performer: "You Make It Easy To Be True") 1952 Monkey Business (performer: "The Whiffenpoof Song" - uncredited) 1948 Mr.

Blandings Builds His Dream House (performer: "Home on the Range" - uncredited) 1946 Night and Day (performer: "Bull Dog" (1911), "An Old Fashioned Garden" (1919), "You're the Top" (1934) - uncredited) 1944 None But the Lonely Heart (performer: "Romance No.6, Op.6 (None But the Lonely Heart)" (1869) - uncredited) 1943 Mr.

Lucky ("Something To Remember You By" (1930)) 1941 Penny Serenade (performer: "Happy Birthday to You" (1893) - uncredited) 1940 My Favorite Wife (performer: "Jingle Bells" (1857) - uncredited) 1939 Only Angels Have Wings (performer: "Some of These Days" (1910), "The Peanut Vendor" (1931) - uncredited) 1938 Bringing Up Baby (performer: "I Can't Give You Anything but Love" (1928) - uncredited) 1937 Topper (performer: "Old Man Moon" (1937), "The Old Oaken Bucket" (1818) (uncredited)) 1936 Suzy ("Did I Remember (To Tell You I Adore You)?" (1936)) / (performer: "La père, la victoire" (1888) - uncredited) 1935 Sylvia Scarlett (performer: "HELLO! HELLO!

WHO'S YOUR LADY FRIEND?" (uncredited), "HELLO! HELLO!" (uncredited), "I DO LIKE TO BE BESIDE THE SEASIDE")

Question: Which actor was born Archibald Leech in Bristol in 1904?
Answer: Cary Grant